Evaluation of the main MPPT techniques for photovoltaic applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1156-1167

  De Brito, Moacyr Aureliano Gomes ^a   Galotto, Luigi ^b   Sampaio, Leonardo Poltronieri ^a   De Azevedo Melo, Guilherme ^a   Canesin, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Photovoltaic (PV) energy; PV maximum power point (MPP) tracker (MPPT) algorithms; PV power profile; PV tracking factor (TF)

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE;

AGILENT; ANALYTICAL PROCEDURE; BOOST DC-DC CONVERTER; D-SPACE; MATLAB /SIMULINK; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; ONLINE PROGRAMS; PERTURB AND OBSERVE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS; POWER PROFILE; PROPORTIONAL-INTEGRAL; PV TRACKING FACTOR (TF); SOLAR ARRAYS; USER FRIENDLY INTERFACE; VOLTAGE RIPPLES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84868143067     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2198036     Document Type: Article

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